Topic
Content Moderation
227 published works
The Data Advisor
EU Reaches Political Agreement on Additional New Rules for Digital Platforms in the Digital Services Act
By Roberto Yunquera Sehwani, Christopher Kuner, Cédric Burton, Christopher Olsen
The EU is close to finalizing the adoption of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which will impose new obligations on digital platforms regarding content moderation, due diligence for illegal content,…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Legal Blog Archive To Serve as a Moderator of Legal Content
The Open Legal Blog Archive, backed by LexBlog, will serve as a moderator of legal content, and that’s a good thing, despite its arguable infringement on free speech. Fred Wilson’s…
MediaWrites
New content moderation rules in Germany: flexibility for community standards and justice by procedure
By Simon Hembt
What has happened in both “hate speech” cases? The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled on two cases governing the deletion of inappropriate yet lawful “hate speech” content. In each…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: Spotify’s Rogan problem is a cautionary tale for other tech platforms
By Mike McBride
The article below points out that many of the platforms that exist today may find themselves in a similar situation and face a similar temptation. As shareholders start demanding more…
The Right Coast
Facebook Said My Article Was ‘False Information.’ Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong.
"This case presents a simple question: do Facebook and its vendors defame a user who posts factually accurate content, when they publicly announce that the content failed a 'fact-check' and…
Socially Aware Blog
District Court Enjoins Controversial Texas Social Media “Censorship” Law
By Aaron Rubin, Heather Whitney
Over the past several years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that provides social media platforms with immunity from liability for user content and was once…
Mike McBride Online
Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 5, 2021
By Mike McBride
How Learning And Development Leaders Can Help Curb The Great Resignation Twitter's New 'Private Information' Policy Takes Impossible Content Moderation Challenges To New, Ridiculous Levels The Six Step eDiscovery Process…
The Right Coast
My Twitter Ban Proves Twitter Manipulates Itself to Silence The Right
Beginning today, Twitter warned, we will not allow the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent. Publishing people s private info is…
The Right Coast
Facebook Oversight Board Launches Review of XCheck System for High-Profile Users
Facebook s Oversight Board will review the company s practice of holding its high-profile users to separate sets of rules due to inconsistencies in the social media honcho s decision…
The Right Coast
Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone | Siva Vaidhyanathan | The Guardian
In one piece, the Journal revealed that Facebook maintains a private registry of very important people, including celebrities and politicians, who are exempt from the strict content-posting rules that govern…